20 October 2008
Let’s face it, the next president is going to have a lot on his plate. If it’s Obama, he’s going to have to right a lot of wrongs. A Christian aid group that makes religious belief a condition of employment is the recipient of a $1.5 million grant. The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel is a little known office which interprets laws, made this grant. This office also allowed a detainee interrogation techniques and a warrantless eavesdropping program which almost started a mass resignation of top law enforcement officials. A lot of their work remains secret but no doubt there will be more rulings as the Bush administration tries to get policies that they favor, before a new administration arrives.
Since the Bush administration had a very broad view of executive power and a tendency to bypass Congress, will make it important for the next president to review legal opinions right after the November election. President Bush and Sen. John McCain, support the efforts of religious organizations to win federal grants while Barack Obama, says that some forms of discriminatory hiring would be impermissible if he were to win the presidency.
The next president faces a failing economy and if McCain becomes president, he no doubt would have to deal with confrontation over spending with a Democratic Congress called back into special session with the goal of passing a new economic stimulus package, all this while the Bush administration is still in office. Transition in the 77 day period between Election Day and Inauguration Day is going to create difficult challenges before they even have a chance to recover from a long campaign. I can only hope that the person we choose to be president, is capable of handling the mess that he inherits.
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